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United States · United States Congress · 13 October 1993
Designates the week beginning November 7, 1993, as National Women Veterans Recognition Week.
United States · United States Congress · 7 October 1993
Fair Trade in Financial Services Act of 1993 - Amends the International Banking Act of 1978 to direct the Secretary of the Treasury (the Secretary) to: (1) identify the extent to which a foreign country denies national treatment to U.S. banking and securities organizations; and (2) determine whether such denial has a significant adverse effect upon them. Authorizes the Secretary to publish the determinations of adverse effect in the Federal Register. Authorizes Federal banking agencies and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), upon concurrence and/or recommendation of the Secretary, to deny applications filed by entities of such identified countries. Prohibits a financial services organization of such a country from commencing any line of business in the United States in which, as of the Secretary's publication date, it was not engaged, or conduct business from any location at which the organization did not conduct business as of that date. Requires securities organizations from those countries to notify the SEC and gain its approval before acquiring control of any registered domestic securities organization. Prescribes guidelines for the Secretary to initiate negotiations with foreign countries that deny national treatment for U.S. banking and securities organizations. Requires the Secretary to submit a biennial status report to the Congress. Amends the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 to direct the Secretary to investigate and report to the President and the Congress on: (1) the extent of the interdependence of U.S. financial services sectors and certain foreign countries; and (2) the economic and strategic consequences of that interdependence for the United States.
United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1993
Designates December 7, 1993, as National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. Requests the President to urge that the U.S. flag be flown at half staff on December 7, 1993, in honor of the individuals who died as a result of their service at Pearl Harbor.
United States · United States Congress · 4 October 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act Title III: Amendments to Other Acts Improving America's Schools Act of 1993 - Title I: Amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to revise and reauthorize ESEA. (Sec. 101) Establishes a title I program for Helping Children in Need Meet High Standards, which revises and reauthorizes some of the current title I chapter 1 programs of Financial Assistance to Meet the Special Educational Needs of Children. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) grants under the basic program; (2) Even Start; (3) education of migratory children; (4) education for neglected or delinquent youth; (5) capital expenses; (6) school improvement; and (7) Federal activities. Requires any State desiring to receive a grant (under the basic program for making high-poverty schools work) to submit State plans that are integrated with that State's plan under the Goals 2000: Educate America Act or with other State plans under this Act. Requires each State plan to describe high-quality standards for all children that will be used by the State, it local educational agencies (LEAs), and its schools to carry out this Act, including challenging content standards in the core academic subjects and challenging performance standards, as well as assessment provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Directs the Secretary of Education to establish a process for peer review and Secretarial approval. Requires LEAs receiving subgrants to have plans with standards and assessments provisions and other teaching and learning support provisions. Provides for State approval and shared program responsibility of schools and the LEA in deciding on schoolwide programs and targeted assistance schools. Allows an LEA to only use basic program funds in eligible school attendance areas in which the percentage of children from low-income families is at least as high as that in the LEA as a whole. Sets forth formulas for ranking eligible school attendance areas for purposes of such funding in various cases where there are insufficient funds. Sets forth criteria which a school must meet in order for the LEA to use basic program funds to upgrade the entire educational program at an eligible school (schoolwide programs). Provides that in participating schools that are ineligible for a schoolwide program or that choose not to operate a schoolwide program, an LEA may use basic program funds only for targeted assistance programs that provide services to eligible children identified as having the greatest need for special assistance (targeted assistance schools). Sets forth criteria for eligible children at such schools. Sets forth requirements for parental involvement and for participation of children enrolled in private schools. Provides for assessment and school and district improvement, including local review, designation of Distinguished Schools, school improvement identification, State review and LEA improvement, State establishment of a corps of Distinguished Educators, and State allocations for school improvement. Revises formulas for allocations of funds. Revises Even Start Family Literacy Programs to increase program services and high-poverty-area targeting and include teenage parents. Revises Education of Migratory Children to restrict eligibility to children who have moved within the previous two years. Revises Education of Neglected and Delinquent Youth to require a 20-hour instructional week. Eliminates title I provisions for the National Commission on Migrant Education, rural technical assistance centers, current chapter 2 State block grants under the partnership for educational improvement, national diffusion network, and law-related education. Eliminates under title I, but provides elsewhere for, evaluation and technical assistance and blue ribbon schools. Provides, later in this Act, for programs for handicapped children to be combined with programs under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Establishes a new ESEA title II, Improving Teaching and Learning, with a new part A, Dwight D. Eisenhower Professional Development Program, to support professional development of elementary and secondary school teachers in core academic subjects. (This replaces the current Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Education Act programs.) Gives priority for professional development in mathematics and science. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new title II part B, Support and Assistance for ESEA Programs. (This replaces the current Foreign Languages Assistance Act programs.) Includes under such technical assistance program comprehensive regional centers and technology-based technical assistance. Provides for information collection, evaluation, and transition. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a new ESEA title III, Expanding Opportunities for Learning. (The current title III, Magnet Schools Assistance, is transferred to a new title V, Promoting Equity.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title III parts: (A) Putting Technology to Work for All Students, including educational technology research, development, and demonstration, an Office of Educational Technology, a national long-range plan, and Federal leadership, as well as a revised Star Schools Program; (B) a revised and renamed Fund for the Improvement of Education (currently under title IV as the Secretary's Fund for Innovation in Education); (C) a revised Jacob K. Javits Gifted and Talented Education Program (currently under title IV); (D) a new Charter Schools program to increase public school choice through grants for innovative programs and exemptions from regulations that limit school operational and management flexibility; (E) an expanded Arts in Education program; and (F) the Inexpensive Book Distribution Program. Establishes as ESEA title IV a Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities program, which replaces and revises the current title V Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act program. (The current title IV Special Programs are replaced as follows: (1) Women's Educational Equity, Gifted and Talented Children, Immigrant Education, and the Secretary's Fund for Innovation are transferred to other titles; and (2) Ellender Fellowships and certain Territorial Assistance are eliminated.) The new program includes: (1) State Grants for Drug and Violence Prevention Programs at State and local levels, including coordinating councils; (2) Postsecondary Drug and Violence Prevention Programs, including higher education institution grants and a national center; and (3) national programs. Establishes as ESEA title V, Promoting Equity, which authorizes appropriations for parts: (A) a revised Magnet Schools Assistance program; (B) a new Equalization Assistance program which provides technical and other assistance, including research, regarding school finance equity; and (C) a revised Women's Educational Equity program. Establishes a new ESEA title VI, Indian Education, which adds revised Indian Education Act programs to ESEA. (Eliminates the current title VI provisions for Projects and Programs Designed to Address School Dropout Problems and to Strengthen Basic Education.) Authorizes appropriations for the following title VI programs: (1) formula grants to LEAs; (2) discretionary programs to improve achievement of Indian children, through grants to Indian-controlled schools and demonstration grants; (3) professional development and adult education programs; (4) national activities and grants to States; and (5) Federal administration through the Office of Indian Education and the National Advisory Council on Indian Education. Revises ESEA title VII, Bilingual Education Programs, while transferring the Emergency Immigrant Education Program to title VII from title IV. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) financial assistance for bilingual education, including enhancement grants and comprehensive district grants; (2) research and evaluation, including academic excellence awards, State grants, and the National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education; (3) professional development, including grants to higher education institutions, State educational agencies, and LEAs, and academic fellowships; and (4) the Emergency Immigrant Education Program. Establishes a new ESEA title VIII, Impact Aid. (The current impact aid laws are repealed later in this Act.) Revises the impact aid to LEAs by: (1) terminating payments for children whose parents either live on Federal land or work for the Federal Government; and (2) changing the payment formula for those children whose parents work for the Federal Government and live on Federal property, and those who live on Indian lands. Authorizes appropriations. Revises ESEA General Provisions, transferring them from title X to title IX. Provides for: (1) flexibility in the use of administrative and other funds, through consolidation of State administrative funds for elementary and secondary education programs and consolidation of funds for local administration; (2) coordination of programs, including consolidated State and local applications; (3) waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; and (4) certain uniform provisions. Title II: Amendments to the General Education Provisions Act - Part A: Applicability of the General Education Provisions Act - Amends the General Education Provisions Act (GEPA) to revise applicability and other aspects. Part B: The Department of Education - Revises GEPA with respect to functions of the Department of Education, including an Office of Private Education. Part C: Appropriations and Evaluations - Revises GEPA with respect to availability of appropriations, contingent extension of programs, and biennial evaluation report. Part D: Administration of Education Program - Revises GEPA with respect to joint funding of programs, information collection and dissemination, review of application, use of withheld funds, applications, regulations, reduction of record retention requirements, and equity for students, teachers, and other program beneficiaries. Part E: Advisory Committees - Repeals specified GEPA provisions relating to Advisory Councils. Part F: Enforcement - Repeal specified GEPA provisions relating to use of recovered funds. Part G: Related Amendments to Other Acts - Makes related amendments to the Department of Education Organization Act and the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA). Part H: Conforming Amendments - Makes conforming amendments to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and to HEA. Title III: Amendments to Other Acts - Part A: Amendments to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to revise provisions for allocations. Combines the current ESEA title I chapter I State agency program for the handicapped with the IDEA programs of grants to States and for infants and toddlers with disabilities. Part B: Amendments to the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act - Amends the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act to revise provisions with respect to grants for State literacy initiatives and grants for State and local activities for the education of homeless children and youth. Authorizes appropriations. Part C: Repeal of Impact Aid Statutes - Repeals certain Federal laws for impact aid. (Impact aid provisions are added to ESEA earlier in this Act.)
United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1993
Health Care Information Modernization and Security Act of 1993 - Amends the Social Security Act to establish the Health Care Data Panel to: (1) develop and submit to the Office of Management and Budget for implementation proposed regulations for an integrated electronic health care data interchange system; (2) select and establish data and transaction standards, conventions, and requirements for the data interchange system; and (3) provide for appointment of a National Health Informatics Commission to advise the Panel on its activities. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 23 September 1993
Designates October 16, 1993, and October 16, 1994, as World Food Day.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Designates the week beginning October 25, 1993, as World Population Awareness Week.
United States · United States Congress · 15 September 1993
Designates October 19, 1993, as National Mammography Day.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
American Common Market Act of 1993 - Authorizes the President to negotiate with other countries of North America, Central America, and South America a treaty to establish a Common Market of the Americas which promotes democracy and mutually beneficial economic development.
United States · United States Congress · 13 September 1993
SSI Outreach Act of 1993 - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish within the Social Security Administration an Office of Outreach Coordination to: (1) administer a program under which the Secretary provides grants and technical assistance to local governments and nonprofit organizations for outreach activities and services targeted at obtaining various assistance for homeless individuals and other hard to reach populations; (2) formulate and provide information and technical assistance to Social Security Administration field offices regarding outreach policies and methods and local outreach activities and services; and (3) implement the requirements of title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Social Security Act relating to the outreach program for children. Sets forth special rules governing the provision of social security benefits to homeless individuals.
United States · United States Congress · 10 September 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Police Corps Program Title II: Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Program Police Corps and Law Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Act - Requires a State that desires to participate in the Police Corps program or the Law Enforcement Scholarship program (established pursuant to this Act) to designate a lead agency and submit a State plan containing assurances with respect to: (1) lead agency cooperation with other State and local agencies; (2) the State advertising of the assistance available; (3) State screening and selection of law enforcement personnel for participation in the program; and (4) compliance with other specified requirements. Title I: Police Corps Program - Establishes within the Department of Justice (DOJ) an Office of the Police Corps to be headed by a Director. (Sec. 103) Authorizes the Director to award scholarships (including direct payments to institutions and reimbursement of educational costs) to participants who agree to work for four years in a State or local police force after completion of a baccalaureate program and police corps training, subject to specified conditions. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) scholarship assistance for dependent children of law enforcement officers; (2) the selection of participants; (3) minority recruitment; and (4) leaves of absence. (Sec. 105) Requires the Director to establish up to three training centers to provide basic law enforcement training to State Police Corps program participants. Requires participants to attend two eight-week training sessions at such training centers and to meet certain performance standards in order to remain in the Police Corps program. Requires the Director to pay participants a weekly stipend during training. (Sec. 107) Requires a State, in order to participate in the Police Corps program, to submit a plan for implementing such program to the Director for approval. Requires such plan to: (1) include assurances that participants will receive additional State or local training after completing Federal training which shall count toward the four-year service obligation; and (2) provide that program participants shall be assigned to community and preventive patrol in geographic areas with the greatest need for additional law enforcement personnel. Sets forth provisions regarding: (1) the swearing in of participants as members of the police force which they are assigned after completing Federal training and meeting the requirements of that police force; (2) layoffs; and (3) assistance to States and localities employing Police Corps officers. (Sec. 110) Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Law Enforcement Scholarship and Employment Program - Directs each State to pay from funds under this Act the Federal share (not more than 60 percent) of the costs of: (1) awarding scholarships to in-service law enforcement personnel for further education; and (2) providing full-time employment in the summer or part-time (up to 20 hours per week) employment for a period not to exceed one year. (Sec. 206) Sets forth application requirements. Grants priority in awarding scholarships to persons who are members of underrepresented groups, are pursuing an undergraduate degree, and are not receiving financial assistance under the Higher Education Act of 1965. (Sec. 208) Requires each scholarship recipient to work in a law enforcement position in the State for a period of one month for each credit hour for which funds are received under the scholarship (with a six-month minimum and two-year maximum). (Sec. 210) Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1993
Requests the President to place in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, a memorial cairn honoring the victims of the terrorist bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988, over Lockerbie, Scotland.
United States · United States Congress · 7 September 1993
Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Soviet-engineered Ukraine famine of 1932-1933 is a graphic illustration of the unacceptable alternative to democracy and a free market economy and that the United States should help Ukraine and other newly independent States of the former Soviet Union as they transform their societies.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Reauthorization Act of 1993 - Amends the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality Act of 1986 to: (1) reauthorize and extend the National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality (Commission); and (2) make changes regarding Commission duties, powers, and staff.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Women and AIDS Research Initiative Amendments of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a program to conduct or support biomedical and behavioral research on cases of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in women. Regulates clinical trials with women subjects. Mandates the conduct or support of: (1) clinical trials regarding the effectiveness of standard gynecological treatments in treating conditions arising from HIV infection; (2) clinical trials regarding whether the treatment protocols approved for men with HIV infection are effective for women with HIV infection; (3) research on barrier methods for the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases that women can use without their sexual partner's cooperation or knowledge; and (4) epidemiological research to determine HIV risk factors particular to women. Mandates support services for women in clinical trials. Regulates the Women's Interagency HIV Study. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Women and HIV Outreach and Prevention Act - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize grants, with regard to women (and their partners) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), for preventive health services, referrals, follow-ups, outreach, and training on the effective provision of such services. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to educate women on the prevention of infection with, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants, cooperative agreements, and contracts to provide: (1) substance abuse treatment to women; (2) counseling to women who engage in substance abuse on the prevention of infection with, and the transmission of, the etiologic agent for AIDS; and (3) such counseling to women who are the partners of individuals who abuse substances. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Amends the Competitiveness Policy Council Act to rename it and to: (1) change the name of the Competitiveness Policy Council to the National Competitiveness Commission (Commission); and (2) reauthorize and extend the Commission. Amends the National Competitiveness Commission Act (as renamed) to make technical changes with respect to Commission duties, powers, staff, and reporting requirements.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Designates September 1993 as Childhood Cancer Month.
United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1993
Declares it is the Congress' intent that the Secretary of Transportation, in negotiating under the auspices of the Land Transportation Standards Subcommittee established under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), uphold U.S. truck safety standards, including truck sizes and weights, and safety standards such as truck driver hours of service, front brake and other safety equipment requirements, and the truck driver record system.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States Subtitle A: State Development Grants Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships Title IV: National Programs Title V: General Provisions School-of-Work Opportunities Act of 1993 - Establishes a national framework for development of School-to-Work Opportunities systems in all States. Declares the congressional intent that the Secretaries of Education and of Labor jointly administer this Act in a flexible manner. Directs the Secretaries to jointly administer the programs established by this Act. Title I: School-to-Work Opportunities Basic Program Components - Requires School-to-Work Opportunities (SWO) programs to: (1) integrate work-based and school-based learning; (2) provide students with the opportunity to complete career majors; and (3) incorporate specified program components including work-based and school-based learning and connecting activities. Title II: School-to-Work Opportunities System Development and Implementation Grants to States - Subtitle A: State Development Grants - Authorizes the Secretaries to award development grants to applicant States to complete development of a comprehensive, statewide SWO system. (Such development may have begun with funds awarded under the Job Training Partnership Act and the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act.) Subtitle B: State Implementation Grants - Allows States to apply to the Secretaries for competitive implementation grants, with applications containing: (1) plans for comprehensive, statewide SWO systems meeting content requirements; (2) descriptions of how funds will be allocated to local SWO partnerships; and (3) optional requests for waivers of certain statutory or regulatory requirements. Title III: Federal Implementation Grants to Partnerships - Authorizes the Secretaries to award competitive SWO implementation grants to partnerships in States that have not received State implementation grants. Authorizes the Secretaries to award grants to implement SWO programs in high poverty areas. (Such funds may be awarded in combination with funds appropriated for the Youth Fair Chance Program.) Title IV: National Program - Directs the Secretaries to provide for: (1) research, demonstration, and other projects; (2) performance outcomes and evaluation, in collaboration with States; and (3) training and technical assistance. Title V: General Provisions - Sets forth provisions relating to: (1) State requests and responsibilities for waivers of statutory and regulatory requirements; (2) such waivers by each of the Secretaries; (3) program safeguards, including nondisplacement of current workers; and (4) acceptance of gifts. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1993
Designates December 1993 as National Drunk and Drugged Driving Prevention Month.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians Act - Reaffirms and extends Federal recognition and associated benefits to the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians (Tribes) of Michigan. Provides for the Tribes to be governed by current interim documents and officials until the Secretary of the Interior conducts elections to adopt a constitution and elect new tribal officials. Provides for the transfer of specified land for the benefit of the Bands.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
National Food Stamp Anti-Counterfeiting Act of 1993 - Amends the Food Stamp Act of 1977 to require the domestic production of food stamp coupons.
United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1993
Designates October 6, 1993 and 1994, as German-American Day.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Equity in Educational Land-Grant Status Act of 1993 - Provides land-grant status for tribally controlled community colleges, tribally controlled postsecondary vocational institutions, the Institute of American Indian and Alaska Native Culture and Arts Development, Southwest Indian Polytechnic Institute, and Haskell Indian Junior College. Authorizes appropriations, in lieu of public land donations, for such colleges and institutions.
United States · United States Congress · 3 August 1993
Designates March 1994 as Irish-American Heritage Month.
United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1993
Designates the week of October 17 through 23, 1993, as National Radon Action Week.
United States · United States Congress · 30 July 1993
Directs the President to: (1) investigate and report to the Congress on the whereabouts of U.S. citizens and others who have been missing from Cyprus since 1974; and (2) do everything possible to return such persons (including remains of those no longer alive) to their families.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Tuberculosis Title II: Sexually Transmitted Diseases Title III: Injury Control and Violence Prevention Title IV: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions Early Detection and Preventive Health Act of 1993 - Title I: Tuberculosis - Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Amendments of 1993 - (Sec. 103) Amends the Public Health Service Act (PHSA) to authorize appropriations for grants for the prevention, control, and elimination of tuberculosis. Mandates State tuberculosis plans. Authorizes the conduct or support of applied research and training on the surveillance, diagnostic methodologies, prevention, control, and treatment of tuberculosis. Removes the cap on the percentage of appropriations under certain provisions that may be used for additional grants under other provisions. (Sec. 104) Requires that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases conduct or support basic research and research training on the cause, diagnosis, early detection, and treatment of tuberculosis. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 105) Amends the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) to authorize a tuberculosis drug and device research program. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Sexually Transmitted Diseases - Sexually Transmitted Diseases Amendments of 1993 - (Sec. 202) Amends the PHSA to authorize appropriations for research, demonstration, public information and education, project grants to States, and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to prevention and control regarding sexually transmitted diseases. (Sec. 203) Authorizes appropriations for grants and related service delivery regarding treatable sexually transmitted diseases that can cause infertility in women. (Sec. 204) Authorizes grants for innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to prevention and control of sexually transmitted diseases and their sequelae. Title III: Injury Control and Violence Prevention - Injury Control and Violence Prevention Act of 1993 - (Sec. 303) Replaces provisions mandating a report by a specified date in 1992 with provisions authorizing research and technical assistance regarding performing research in, and conducting training and public health programs for, the prevention of injuries and deaths associated with family and interpersonal violence. Authorizes related grants. Mandates support for the establishment of national systematic surveillance of injuries, including those caused by family and interpersonal violence. (Sec. 304) Establishes an advisory committee on injury prevention and control. (Sec. 306) Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to injury prevention and control, including a related report. Title IV: Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments - Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - (Sec. 402) Authorizes States to make limited payments from breast and cervical cancer screening grant amounts to private as well as to public or nonprofit private entities. Modifies matching requirements and requirements regarding the percentages of grant funds devoted to specified services. Replaces provisions relating to breast and cervical cancer screening quality assurance and to guidelines on the quality of mammography and cytological services with provisions requiring States to assure screening quality. Authorizes related grants to tribes and tribal organizations. (Sec. 403) Authorizes grants to up to three States for demonstration projects regarding preventive health services (including blood pressure and cholesterol screening and health education) and related referrals and evaluations. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 404) Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to breast and cervical cancer preventive health measures. Title V: Miscellaneous Provisions - (Sec. 501) Requires that a specified minimum and maximum (currently, a specified maximum) portion of amounts appropriated under the PHSA (currently, under certain parts of the PHSA and other Acts) be used to evaluate programs authorized by such Acts. Mandates an annual report. (Sec. 502) Authorizes providing certain allowances and benefits for personnel appointed or assigned to serve abroad. (Sec. 503) Authorizes a program of health professionals who have a substantial amount of educational loans relative to income agreeing to conduct prevention activities, as employees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, in return for Federal payment on educational loans. (Sec. 504) Mandates biennial reports on the relationship between nutrition and health. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 505) Authorizes appropriations to carry out provisions relating to prostate cancer prevention, cancer registries, and health promotion and disease prevention centers. Declares that it is the sense of the Congress that all Acts regarding the authorization of CDC programs should be authorized only through a specified fiscal year, after which the Congress should reauthorize the CDC and its programs in one comprehensive Act on a regular cyclical basis.
United States · United States Congress · 29 July 1993
Breast and Cervical Cancer Amendments of 1993 - Amends Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing grants for breast and cervical cancer preventive health measures to allow States to make contracts with private entities, provided the amount paid does not exceed the amount that would be paid under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act. Requires special consideration to be given to projects that have been peer reviewed and approved and that involve areas that have high cervical or breast cancer mortality rates or a high incidence of such cancers. Revises breast and cervical cancer screening quality assurance requirements. Allows the grants to be made to tribes and tribal organizations. Includes these changes in evaluation and reporting requirements. Authorizes demonstration project grants to up to three States receiving the cancer grants to provide: (1) additional preventive services, including health education and screening regarding blood pressure and cholesterol; (2) referrals and follow up for women receiving the cancer services; and (3) related evaluations. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations to carry out the breast and cervical cancer preventive health measures provisions.
United States · United States Congress · 28 July 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: FHA Multifamily Reforms Title II: Enhance Program Flexibility Subtitle A: Office of Public and Indian Housing Subtitle B: Office of Community Planning and Development Subtitle C: Community Partnerships Against Crime Title III: Technical and Other Amendments Subtitle A: Public and Assisted Housing Subtitle B: Multifamily Housing Housing and Community Development Act of 1993 - Title I: FHA Multifamily Reforms - Amends the Housing and Community Development Amendments of 1978 to revise provisions regarding the management and disposition of Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - held multifamily properties and mortgages. (Sec. 103) Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 to eliminate the multifamily property disposition demonstration program. (Sec. 104) Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (Secretary) to carry out a Resolution Trust Corporation marketing disposition multifamily property demonstration program. (Sec. 105) Amends the National Housing Act to authorize civil money penalties against general partners and certain managing agents of multifamily projects. Title II: Enhance Program Flexibility - Subtitle A: Office of Public and Indian Housing Freeze - Bases ongoing administrative fee costs for the certificate and voucher programs on FY 1993 rent levels. (Sec. 202) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to raise the cap for severely distressed public housing grants. Revises specified program provisions. (Sec. 203) Establishes a temporary earned income disallowance from public housing rent determinations. Subtitle B: Office of Community Planning and Development - Amends the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 to increase eligible economic activities under the loan guarantee program, including loan guarantees for colonias. (Sec. 211) Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to revise the HOME investment partnerships program, including provisions regarding State agency participation, removal of first-time homebuyer limitations, and certain threshold requirements. (Sec. 212) Reduces the single family HOPE program matching requirement. Subtitle C: Community Partnerships Against Crime - Amends the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1988 to retitle chapter 2 of subtitle C of title V as the Community Partnerships Against Crime Act of 1993. Expands the scope of anti-crime grant activities. Increases and extends authorizations of appropriations. Obligates funds for public housing agency technical assistance. Title III: Technical and Other Amendments - Subtitle A: Public and Assisted Housing - Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to make specified public housing provisions applicable to Indian housing. Subtitle B: Multifamily Housing - Makes technical amendments to specified housing programs.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Landmine Moratorium Extension Act of 1993 - Declares that it is U.S. policy to seek international agreements prohibiting the sale, transfer, or export, and terminating the manufacture, possession, and use, of antipersonnel landmines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the President should submit the 1980 Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to the Senate for ratification; and (2) the Administration should negotiate a modification of the Landmine Protocol under United Nations auspices or another international agreement to limit the sale, transfer, manufacture, and use of landmines. Prohibits for three years after this Act's enactment: (1) sales, financing, transfers, and the issuance of licenses under the Arms Export Control Act with respect to antipersonnel landmines; and (2) assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 with respect to the provision of such landmines.
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1993
Designates November 22, 1993, as National Military Families Recognition Day.
United States · United States Congress · 21 July 1993
Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Act of 1993 - Establishes the Community Development Banking and Financial Institutions Fund as a wholly-owned Government corporation to provide financial and technical assistance and training to enable community development financial institutions to invest in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods and Indian reservations. Prescribes program parameters. Requires the Fund to: (1) establish an information clearinghouse in coordination with certain Federal agencies; and (2) study and report on its practices and performance. Authorizes appropriations.
United States · United States Congress · 15 July 1993
Designates October 1993 as Italian-American Heritage and Culture Month.
United States · United States Congress · 14 July 1993
Social Security Domestic Employment Reform Act of 1993 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act to change the threshold (currently, $50 a quarter) at which cash remuneration for domestic services becomes subject to social security employment taxes to an applicable dollar amount required for a quarter of coverage under title II. Excludes the employment of domestic employees under age 18 from such coverage. Sets forth rules for filing returns with respect to domestic service employment taxes and requires such returns to be made on a calendar year basis. Subjects such taxes to estimated tax provisions. Makes filing requirements inapplicable to any employer liable for tax concerning remuneration for services other than domestic service in a private home. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into agreements with States to collect the State unemployment tax imposed on remuneration for domestic service and transfers such amounts to a State's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund.
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1993
Designates August 1, 1993, as Helsinki Human Rights Day. Authorizes the President to reassert America's commitment to the Helsinki Accords and requests him to: (1) convey to all signatories of the Accords that respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is a vital element of further progress in the ongoing Helsinki process; and (2) develop new proposals to advance the human rights objectives of such process to address the major problems that remain.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1993
Great Lakes Clean Water Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to make it unlawful, after 1994, to dispose of dredge spoil in Great Lakes waters other than at a confined disposal facility unless the disposal is consistent with guidelines established under this Act. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop guidelines for the disposal of sediment material in the open waters of the Great Lakes. Prescribes civil penalties for violations concerning such disposal. Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from establishing, expanding, or modifying any confined spoil disposal facility in Great Lakes waters unless the facility is consistent with such guidelines. Directs the Administrator to implement management plans for such facilities. Requires the Secretary to develop remediation plans for confined disposal facilities that are at risk of exceeding water or sediment quality standards or interfering with the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of fish and wildlife. Terminates the use of facilities for which plans are not implemented by January 1, 1999. Requires persons who dispose of dredge spoil at confined spoil disposal facilities to obtain permits. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop tributary sediment transport models for each major river system that deposits sediment into a Great Lakes federally authorized commercial harbor, channel maintenance project site, or area of concern; (2) develop an analytical method to project the effectiveness of sediment source reduction approaches; and (3) use such method to conduct sediment load reduction analyses for the models. Requires the Secretary to transfer funds to EPA for making grants to States for projects to reduce erosion that contributes to the sedimentation of such areas. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Great Lakes National Program Office to conduct demonstration projects of promising technologies to remedy contaminated sediments. Establishes: (1) a Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Demonstration Program; (2) a Great Lakes Pollution Prevention Clearinghouse; and (3) a Great Lakes Research Council. Sets deadlines for the publication of final and proposed Lakewide Management Plans for specified Great Lakes. Authorizes appropriations for the Great Lakes water quality program.
United States · United States Congress · 30 June 1993
Expresses the sense of the Senate that the identification of trade liberalization priorities by the United States Trade Representative under "Super 301" provisions of the Trade Act of 1974 should be done not later than April 30th of each year.
United States · United States Congress · 29 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Findings and Definitions Title II: Merchandise Trade Deficit Reduction United States-Japan Trade Equalizing Act of 1993 - Title I: Findings and Definitions - Sets forth congressional findings and purposes with respect to access to Japanese markets by U.S. manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle parts. Title II: Merchandise Trade Deficit Reduction - Sets forth annual merchandise trade deficit reduction targets with respect to Japan's trade deficit with the United States. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) compute annually whether the target has been met for each year; (2) publish in the Federal Register that the import restriction implementation period is in effect for the year following the year a target has not been met; and (3) compute annually and publish in the Federal Register the quantitative import restrictions for years in which import restrictions are effective. Prohibits the quantity of Japanese motor vehicles and parts that may be entered into the United States in: (1) the first year in which a restriction is in effect from exceeding the quantity of such vehicles and parts entered during 1993, reduced by 20 percent; and (2) subsequent years from exceeding the quantity entered during the most recent year for which a restriction was in effect, reduced by 20 percent. Authorizes the Secretary to impose temporary quantitative import restrictions on such motor vehicles and parts during the first three months of an import restriction implementation period in order to prevent surging. Expresses the sense of the Congress that representatives of the U.S. and Japanese Governments should undertake continuing discussions regarding the measures to be selected by the Japanese Government to achieve the merchandise trade deficit reduction targets.
United States · United States Congress · 24 June 1993
Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to establish a Microenterprise Development Fund within the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance. Channels Fund monies through U.S. private and voluntary organizations, indigenous governmental and nongovernmental organizations, and credit union organizations. Earmarks Fund monies as follows: (1) 50 percent per fiscal year for poverty lending; and (2) five percent per fiscal year for research and evaluation of funded microenterprise activities. Requires the agency administrator to ensure that at least 60 percent of the borrowers of Fund monies are women.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
TABLE OF CONTENTS: Title I: Trade Remedy Actions Title II: Extension and Modification of Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act Fair Trade in Motor Vehicle Parts Act of 1993 - Title I: Trade Remedy Actions - Declares that any act, policy, or practice of a deficit foreign country that adversely affects the access to its market of U.S. motor vehicle parts (including, but not limited to, any act, policy, or practice utilized in such country's motor vehicle distribution system) shall, for purposes of "301" action under the Trade Act of 1974, be considered as an act, policy, or practice that is unjustifiable and burdens or restricts U.S. commerce. Directs the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to determine what action to take under the Act to eliminate such act, policy, or practice. Requires an agenda for negotiations with countries the USTR has taken action against to include: (1) a certain percentage of guaranteed sales in the deficit foreign country's market of U.S. motor vehicle parts; (2) the elimination or modification of the aspects of such country's motor vehicle distribution system that act as a barrier to U.S. motor vehicle parts; and (3) the exchange between such country and the United States of information concerning bilateral trade in such parts. Requires the USTR to make certain estimates with respect to the current percentage of such country's market for motor vehicle parts that is accounted for by U.S. motor vehicle parts. Requires the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) to commence an antidumping duty investigation to determine if imports of motor vehicle parts from a deficit foreign country, or sales (or the likelihood of sales) of such imports, constitute grounds for the imposition of antidumping duties. Title II: Extension and Modification of Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act - Amends the Fair Trade in Auto Parts Act of 1988 to extend such Act through December 31, 1998. Directs the Secretary, among other things, to coordinate: (1) U.S. policy regarding auto parts and the market for auto parts by the Japanese; and (2) the sharing of data and market information among U.S. agencies, including the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Justice, the Department of Commerce, and the Office of the USTR.
United States · United States Congress · 17 June 1993
Condemns the repressive anti-Baha'i policy adopted by the Government of Iran. Urges the Government of Iran to extend to the Baha'i community the rights guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international covenants on human rights. Calls upon the President to continue to: (1) urge such Government to emancipate the Baha'i community by granting such rights; (2) emphasize that the United States regards the human rights practices of such Government, particularly its treatment of the Baha'is and other religious minorities, as a significant factor in the development of U.S.-Iranian relations; and (3) encourage other governments to continue to appeal to the Government of Iran and to cooperate with other governments and international organizations in efforts to protect the religious rights of the Baha'is and other minorities in Iran.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commemorative Coin Act of 1994 - Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to issue a specified number of one-dollar silver coins emblematic of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Mandates that the surcharges collected from the sale of such coins be paid to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund to help raise an endowment for the Memorial's maintenance and for the addition of names.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Trauma Care Amendments Act of 1993 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to: (1) increase (from 12 to 13) the number of members of the Advisory Council on Trauma Care Systems; (2) include on the Council an individual who has been a trauma patient at a designated trauma center, to be appointed for a four-year term; and (3) require that at least four (currently, 25 percent) of the members be knowledgeable concerning rural areas. Requires the Council to meet not less than once and, if the Chair determines necessary, up to four times each year (currently, at the call of the Chair and not less than once each three months). Includes among requirements for State plans (in order to receive allotments) coordination and cooperation among bordering States with respect to areas in which logical geographic groupings across State borders would be appropriate (currently, among States that share any standard metropolitan statistical area). Authorizes appropriations. Directs the General Accounting Office to study and report to the appropriate congressional committees on the duplication of Federal emergency medical services and trauma activities.
United States · United States Congress · 15 June 1993
Designates the month of October in 1993 and 1994 as Country Music Month.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Designates July 25 through 31, 1993, as National Week of Recognition and Remembrance for Those Who Served in the Korean War. Authorizes the President to urge U.S. departments and agencies, interested organizations, groups, and individuals to fly the American flag at half-staff on July 27, 1993, in honor of the Americans who died as a result of their service in Korea.
United States · United States Congress · 10 June 1993
Congratulates the Anti-Defamation League as it celebrates its 80th anniversary in 1993 and commends it for effectively pursuing the goal of promoting greater tolerance among people throughout the world.
United States · United States Congress · 8 June 1993
Designates September 9, 1993, and April 21, 1994, as National DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Day.
United States · United States Congress · 28 May 1993
Affirms Federal recognition of, and makes eligible for Federal services, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians. States that the Band's service area shall consist of specified counties in Michigan and Indiana.